Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:51PM
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Radio astronomy has never had a better moment to push for its interest than now - just fire up the PR machine, and say: "Seen that black hole pic? Want more things like that? Better pics? Well, then let us keep our spectrum!"
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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
by aeternus on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:10PM
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There have got to be other solutions for radio astronomy. Let's look at options like putting telescope relays at lagrange points, or in orbit of other planets where there is no spectrum interference.
The black hole pic was cool, but you know what would make it even cooler and higher-res? Using the same technique with an even wider array (interplanetary) telescopes.
Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
by orbital-decay on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:34AM
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> Let's look at options like putting telescope relays at lagrange points
That's precisely what Millimetron/Spektr-M aims to do, but it still needs the ground part. You can't put the 100m Green Bank Telescope into orbit.